From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 20:25:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192FC15541 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:25:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06258; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:29:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:29:29 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFSTT In-Reply-To: <388FC59D.D5FD68A9@ds.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, I just copied the xfstt-1.0.tgz from the /usr/ports/distfiles over to /usr/src/tmp on the Redhat machine, unpacked the file, ran ./Configure, typed make and let it rip. Compiled without a hitch. Installed without a hitch. In my rc.local file, I placed /usr/local/bin/xfstt --sync; /usr/local/bin/xfstt &. Worked like a charm for me. *==============================================* *Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com* *FreeBSD Novice * *All ORBS.org SMTP connections are denied! * *==============================================* On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, James A. Mutter wrote: > I saw something about that in the archives and decided that I would give > a small Linux server a try. I've been working all day to get this done > and have run into a few problems: > 1. There are SO DAMN MANY linux distros now it took a while to decide > on one. > 2. Very few (from what I can tell) will perform an ftp/http install. > 3. RedHat's network install needs serious work. > > Three cheers for the FreeBSD team - they seem to have licked these > problems. Mostly today was a reminder of why I left Linux in the first > place. :) > Gene Harris wrote: > > > > I have been equally frustrated by this program. I took the > > source and compiled it on my RedHat system and it works just > > fine - no patches, nothing. So I just used xset fp+ > > inet/RedHat:7101 to feed mt FreeBSD the truetype fonts. > > > > Then I got the bright idea of recompiling the program "as > > is" on FreeBSD, without using the port. And the results > > were just as crappy as they were with the port. So, my > > RedHat server is both my IBM DB2 server and my Truetype > > server. *grin* > > > > *==============================================* > > *Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com* > > *FreeBSD Novice * > > *All ORBS.org SMTP connections are denied! * > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message